Corder for sewing-machines



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. E. T. THOMAS; OORDBR FOR SEWING MACHINES.

No. 255,125. Patented Mar. 21,1882.

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(AM M/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDDY T. THOMAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIG-NOR TO THE GOLD MEDAL SEWING MAeHINE COMPANY, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORDER FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,125, dated March 21, 1882.

Application filed November 11, 1880.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDDY T. THOMAS, of New Yorkcity, New York county, and State of New York, have invented Improvements in Corders for Sewing-lilaehines, of which the following description, with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention in corders for sewing-machines has for its object to provide the eorder at its forward end with a cord-delivery hub having cord-receiving and cord-guiding eyes or passages of different sizes, to adapt the corder to cords of dififerent diameters, substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

Figure 1 represents, in top view, a. corder having my delivery-hub applied to it, a cord being shown in position therein; Fig. 2, a front elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a. right-hand elevation of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged top zojview and section of the delivery-hub.

The foot to and arms I) b of the corder are common to corders now found in the market; but in such corders the cord is delivered from the outer end of the part 1), between upper and lower lips formed by bending the metal of which the arm b is composed. I have pivoted or secured the delivery-hub c at the end of the arm I) by means of a screw or pin, (1, so that either one of the eyes 1, 2, or 3 (said hub hav- 9 ing two or more eyes of different size) may be placed in the'position of eye2 to delivera cord between the layers of fabric to be corded, and under the corder-foot in line with its groove (No model.)

and needle-hole c, as usual. The delivery-hub is held by a spring,f, as in Fig. l, to prevent 5 it from being turned accidentally. The delivery-hub will preferably be made of thin sheet metal (see Fig. 4) struck out by a die and curled over to form eyes.

I do not broadly claim a guide for cord or braid, the said guide having more than one cord or braid passage of difi'erent sizes.

By providing the corder with two or more eyes of different, or it may be of the Same, size, I am enabled to better hold the cord, and also add greatly to the durability of the corder, for if one eye becomes worn, jammed, or closed together, the remaining eyes of the corder are yet serviceable.

1 claim The cord-delivering hub 0, provided with a plurality of curled ends forming eyes 1 2 3, combined with the pivot d, upon which it may be rotated to bring either of its ey es into po-' sition, the detaining-springf, arranged to bear against the periphery of the said hub to hold it in position, and corder-arms b b, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'-' EDDY T. THOMAS.

Witnesses:

SPENCER 0. Don, BERNARD J. KELLY. 

